"If green is the color of Ireland, and a soft day the touch, and poteen the taste, and harp music the sound, then a turf fire ...

Peat bogs may not be unique to Ireland, but their place in the Irish cultural imagination certainly is. Against the drama of our mountains, and of the waves shaping our rugged shores, peat bogs ...

Outside the Midlands, most peatlands in Ireland, especially in the West, are described as blanket bog. They form in areas ...

The Brazilian rainforest is thought of as the world’s greatest “carbon sink”, yet our wet Irish peatlands store four times as ...

Whole ecosystems have been “decimated” and endangered species put at risk after weeks of wildfires across the UK, charities ...

A piece of parchment wrapped around a 16th century volume of property records has turned out to be a treasure beyond ...

More than half of Ireland's birds are in decline. Séan Ronayne hopes recording each bird's song on film might help encourage people to save them and the ecosystems they call home.

Three of the US army soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been found dead in their armoured vehicle that was pulled from a swampy area early yesterday, according to US Army Europe and Africa ...

This means the ban would apply to more than half of the country’s 677,250 hectares of blanket bog, including the entire area of upland deep peat. Any burning would need to be done under strict ...

Local Notes: Students of Gaelcholaiste Chomain, Ros Dumhach win All Ireland Junior Schools Olympic Handball championship. New ...

What is decidedly uncommon in Scottish golf is Ardfin’s massive scale. Stretched out, the course shadows the coast for two ...

Humans forgot all about this giant deer until the late 1500s and early 1600s, when Irish peasants, digging in bogs for peat to burn as fuel, started finding their fossilized remains. Kings and ...